Jean Terles Painting Portrait Women Nude Bathers Diving Gouache

Beautiful old drawing around 1930, mixed technique on paper (gouache), representing an original illustration project with squaring. Painting in good condition. Stamp of the Jean Terles Paris estate on the back. Jean Terles studied at the Beaux Arts in Paris after a degree in modern literature. He entered Lucien Simon's workshop, and continued his training at Casa Velasquez. He stayed in Morocco during the war then returned to Paris where he rubbed shoulders with Yves Brayer and Jean Dubuffet, among others. He exhibits alongside them in the major Parisian galleries. He also works as an illustrator for great authors (Emile Zola, Georges Bernanos, Henri Maurois...) and teaches at the Gobelins school. He returned to Lot et Garonne at the end of the 1970s and continued to work and exhibit.